To top it off, National Records of Scotland announced a year-on-year rise in the number of people dying an alcohol-related ...

Why is exercise good for you? How many people are dying each year in Scotland as a result of diseases brought on by physical inactivity? And ...

Neil Gray has been accused of being "in denial" after defending the performance of the health service.

In an open letter to the Government over the cuts, Mr McLellan said: “With the SNP cutting £500 million from Scottish Government budgets, including £115.8 million from health and social care, I doubt ...

Scotland's NHS is not in crisis despite facing "challenges", the health secretary has insisted. Neil Gray said that while key targets - such as those for accident and emergency waiting times ...

Legislation creating protected zones of 200 metres around abortion services comes into force on Tuesday September 24.

The Labour party conference starts on Sunday in Liverpool - and there is pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to show his government ...

Public health minister Jenni Minto said the Scottish government was "determined to do all it can" to reduce alcohol-related ...

There is an upward trend of women having children later in life. The latest data from Public Health Scotland showed that a quarter of women having babies were aged 35 or older, external.

Many of the NHS’s long-term problems became critical during the pandemic. Can a change of government at Westminster and ...

The latest figures from National Records of Scotland, show 1,277 people died from conditions caused by alcohol in 2023.

The review was ordered after Public Health Scotland (PHS) data showed spikes in September 2021 and March 2022, which breached statistical control limits. The report concluded the registered causes ...